Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1892. 
Reviews. 
647 
Formulaire  de  V  Antisepsie  et  de  la  Disinfection,  par  H.  Bocquillon-Iyimousin, 
pharmacien  de  ire  classe,  etc.  Avec  une  introduction  parle  Dr.Verchere,  chirur- 
gien  de  Saint-Lazare.  Paris  :  J.  B.  Bailliere  et  Fils.  1893.  i6mo.  Pp.  viii  and 
298.    Price,  3  francs. 
Formulary  on  antisepsis  and  disinfection. 
This  is  a  companion  volume  to  the  one  by  the  same  author  noticed  on  page 
334  of  our  June  number,  and  in  which  the  subject  of  antisepsis  and  antiseptics 
could  be  but  briefly  treated.  In  the  present  work  we  find  five  chapters,  of 
which  the  first  treats  of  the  influence  of  various  agents  upon  the  disease-pro- 
ducing microbes,  which  is  followed  by  a  compilation  of  the  antiseptics  recom- 
mended by  eminent  physicians  and  surgeons  for  various  organs  and  different 
classes  of  disease.  The  third  chapter  gives  the  different  forms  of  antiseptic 
preparations  with  the  necessary  furmulas,  and  in  the  fourth  chapter  the  anti- 
septic agents  are  briefly  described  in  alphabetical  order.  The  concluding 
chapter  treats  of  the  various  methods  of  disinfection,  more  particularly  as 
applied  to  the  person,  to  furniture,  rooms,  etc.,  to  the  sterilization  of  water, 
milk,  and  other  liquors,  and  to  the  precautions  recommended  in  cases  of  various 
epidemics.  As  will  be  noticed  the  subject-matter  is  quite  comprehensive  ;  but 
though  necessarily  the  account  under  each  heading  is  brief,  nothing  that  might 
be  of  practical  value  appears  to  have  been  omitted  ;  hence  the  little  work  will 
be  found  of  much  usefulness  in  all  cases  where  disinfectants  or  antiseptics  are 
indicated. 
Over  one  thousand  Prescriptions  or  favorite  Formulas  of  various  Authors, 
Teachers  and  Practicing  Physicians,  the  whole  being  carefully  indexed  and 
including  most  of  the  newer  remedies.  Published  by  The  Illustrated  Medical 
Journal  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich.    Pp.  132.    Price,  $1. 
The  prescriptions  have  been  collected  from  various  sources,  and  are  printed 
without  any  special  order,  but  can  be  readily  consulted  through  the  copious- 
index  of  diseases.  Bach  printed  page  is  faced  by  a  blank  page,  which  may  be 
used  for  notes  intended  to  be  preserved. 
Sur  le  Dadi-go  on  Balancounfa,  plante  nouvelle  cleistogame  et  distopique, 
usitee  comme  tsenifuge  sur  la  cote  occidentale  de  l'Afrique  tropicale.  Par 
M.  Edouard  Heckel,  Professeur  a.  la  Faculte  des  Sciences  de  Marseille  et  a. 
l'Ecole  de  Medecine. 
On  Dadigo  or  Balancounfa,  a  new  cleistogamous  and  distopic  plant,  used  as 
a  tsenifuge  on  the  west  coast  of  tropical  Africa. 
A  reprint  from  the  Annales  de  la  Faculte  des  Sciences  of  Marseille,  1891, 
with  three  plates.  The  plant  in  question  has  been  named  by  the  author 
Ceratanthera- Beaumetzi.  From  his  experiments  it  appears  that  the  tsenifuge 
properties  are  due  to  the  volatile  oil. 
Sur  la  Graine  d'Owala.    Par  le  Docteur  Ed.  Heckel.   On  owala  seed. 
A  reprint  from  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie,  August,  1892.  The  seed  is  obtained 
from  Pentaclethra  macrophylla,  Bentham,  a  tree  of  the  order  leguminosae, 
indigenous  to  Western  Africa.  The  seeds  yield  36  per  cent.,  or  after  the 
removal  of  the  integuments,  44  per  cent,  of  a  valuable  butyraceous  fat  which 
melts  at  24-8°  C. 
Ueber  Zersetzbarkeit  des  Chloroformium  medicinale  Pictet.   Von  E.  Biltz. 
On  the  decomposition  of  Pictet's  medicinal  chloroform. 
